How the transformers arcs work and end?

As the title reads, Simply put: How did the original transformers series end? Aswell, how did some of the others, such as armada, energon, and cybertron end?|||The original 1984 cartoon series ended its run in 1987 while the comic ran until the end of toy production in 1991.


The american cartoon ended with the penultimate defeat of the Decepticons and the birth of a new Golden Age for Cybertron. Optimus Prime, back from the dead, declared there will always be Decepticons, leaving it open for the possibilty for a continuation.


The Japanese version ignored the american 4th season, which continued into 3 more series, one OVA, and a comic strip. The final story detailed the return of both Convoy (Optimus Prime) and Megatron in the arctic.





The comic book, which lasted longer, ended with the supposed death of Megatron, the defeat of the Decepticons, the return of Optimus Prime, and the hasty tying up of all loose ends.


The comic was continued in 1993 along with the revived toyline with Transformers: Generation 2. Following the events of the original comic, Megatron survived and got a new exostructure and main weapon from Cobra which kicked off the new series. The Autobots meanwhile were busy answering distress calls across the universe while the Decepticons were bringing their plan following their defeat to fruition. The threat of the second generation Cybertronians forced an alliance between the Autobots and Decepticons, and by the end of the short-lived series, were working together for a new age of peace.





According to the 1996 series Beast Wars, the follow up to the original series set roughly 600 years after the Autobot Decepticon war, the fighting continued until Cybertron was nearly depleted of energy, forcing both sides to peace treaties and downsize into new castes of Maximals and Predacons. A new war between the Maximals and Predacons began however, but ended with the Maximals as the victors. A Predacon who chose the name Megatron gathered followers and stole an ancient Autobot artifact which prompted a ship captained by Optimus Primal to pursue them across time and space to prehistoric earth. There they waged a battle called the "Beast Wars" to prevent Megatron from collecting the energy he needs to conquer Cybertron and alter history in favor of the Decepticons. The series ended with the capture of Megatron and return trip to Cybertron.


The 1999 series Beast Machines however tells that Megatron fell off the ship during a time disruption, causing him to arrive months ahead of the Maximals in their own time. Megatron took advantage of the war torn vulnerable state of Cybertron following the attack of Unicron's heralds and conquered the planet, creating a virus and turning the population into his army of Vehicon drones. When the Maximals arrived they found themselves under attack and unable to remember their return or why they had their original earth beast modes. The organic core of Cybertron reformatted them into Technorganic warriors to reclaim Cybertron from Megatron. The series, and timeline since G1, ended with the unification of the organic and technological aspects of Cybertron, creating a new race of techno-organic Cybertronians and new age of peace





The 2001 series Robots in Disguise is the first of many new alternate universes. It was about the Autobots vs the Predacons in futuristic Japan. The series ended with the defeat of Megatron and the capture of all Decepticons and Predacons and return to Cybertron, except for the misunderstood underdog comic relief who was left behind to live a peaceful life on earth.





Armada, Energon, and Cybertron (the Unicron Trilogy) was another alternate universe story where a third faction, the Minicons, were the cause of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons. The trilogy ended with the destruction of Unicron's threat once and for all in a black hole.





Transformers: Animated is yet another alternate universe, where the All-Spark is the cause of the war. Optimus Prime sacrifices it to keep Megatron from misusing it, but by the end of the series the All-Spark fragments are reunited into a Matrix and Megatron and (most of) his followers are captured and returned to Cybertron|||"G1" never really ended it was a cliff hanger that they wanted to expand into a series called Head Masters (only aired in japan) where Armada, Energon, and Cyberton (aka the Unicron trilogy) all played into each other Armada ending with the aurobots returning to cybertron, Energon the death of Unicron, and Cybertron the closing of the black hole Unicrons death created.|||I don't know